ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,888, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing austenitic stainless steel strip" was invented by Shogo Momono (Tokyo), Shinichiro Fukada (Tokyo) and Toshihiro Uehara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an austenitic stainless steel strip comprises: hot-rolling a material having a component composition containing, in % by mass, more than 20.0% and 30.0% or less of Ni, more than 15.0% and 18.0% or less of Cr, 1.0 to 2.0% of Mo, 3.5% or more and less than 5.0% of Al, more than 1.0% and 2.0% or less of Nb+Ta, 0.3% or less of Ti+V, 1.0% or less of Si, 2.0% or less of ...